In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.
Charles Krauthammer
MeaningUnexpectedMayPanicExample
There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.
Joachim Frank
MeaningObservationManyVeryReally
This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.
Richard Grasso
GlobalizationMeaningCountryAdmit
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Saint Ignatius
SpeakSlowBetterMeaningYouKnow
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell
LifeMeaningYouAliveWhatever
I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have been taken out of their original Bible context and put together for mass, and now they form a new text. Out of that new text, there is an interplay of new meaning.
Blase J. Cupich
TogetherBibleMeaningYouNewNow
I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.
Joe Wright
LoveMindPotentialMeaningCreating
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Rene Magritte
MindMeaningUnknownImagesWhose
Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
PoliticalMeaningCongressEndure
Having been in the league with five different franchises, I know what the meaning of Monday Night Football is. It's usually the best games and the greatest venue outside the playoffs.
Jon Gruden
BestFootballMondayNightMeaning
It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
PastPeopleBad PeopleMeaningBad
Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.
Andrew Solomon
ParentsGrowMeaningFindDownKids
I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.
Marjane Satrapi
HomeLiveMeFeelMeaningLong
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
Paracelsus
DreamsMeaningFantasyInspiration
When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.
Doc Watson
MusicMeaningPlayMoodWhatever
Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.
Alexandra Stoddard
LifeJourneyMeaningFindingBecome
It's funny when you follow your own sort of bliss, then other people tend to respond in kind, meaning audiences. It's really weird how that works, but it does seem to apply to 'Nancy & Beth' especially.
Megan Mullally
FunnyPeopleWeirdMeaningYouKind
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Morrie Schwartz
LifeForwardMeaningYouBackWant
I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
Natalie Portman
MarriageYourselfPeopleMeaningGay
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Dr. Seuss
GreatBookMeaningYouMatterYour
I went out with a 40-year-old when I was 19, and since then, I don't really think much about numbers meaning anything. But I do feel like maybe I've neglected to work on developing emotionally and taking care of myself.
Alexa Chung
WorkMyselfThinkCareFeelMeaning
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou
WordsVoiceMeaningDownMeanHuman
I was a big party guy in my twenties, and kind of a playboy as well. I adopted a lot of values and goals that were fairly superficial and, in many cases, self-destructive. They looked cool and sounded sexy on the surface, but underneath, there was no real meaning going on, just a lot of escapism.
Mark Manson
GoalsCoolSexyMeaningValuesKind
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
Nancy Pearcey
MindWorldThoughtMeaningFeelings
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